Hello and thanks for your answer,
Yes, yes I love the location based possibilities but it I think nobody should track where I am besides me and myself without telling me.
Untill now I don't know what is happening.
This use of location should be plain and simple noticed for each app.
Regards,
Johan
Johan...
The fear of digital tracking is a misplaced one.
If Health and Fitness App tracks your locations... And someone hacks into that data, what good does it do them to know you took 8,327 steps at a local park? How does that ruin your life?
If your Weather App's database gets hacked and they now know you live in AnyTown... What does that get them? Just having some locations your phone went to does no hacker any good that I can see.
What scenario do you envision where some hacker creates mischief from knowing where YOUR phone has been?. YOU out of the millions they got this information on?
In case of hackers getting into databases, you have way more to worry about than your phone's location... Hackers don't care where your phone has been. They want your bank log-in, your passwords to your email and social media, your social security number, your bank card information. None of them are making money from scams based on knowing where your phone was yesterday.
Don't want the authorities to know where you've been? OK, I won't even ask what you did wrong. You, my man, are stone cold gangstah and I'm scared of you. I know the cops are hunting for you night and day. So you think that the McDonalds App on your phone that uses location services to show you where the closest restaurant is and offer you special deals is their go to for tracking you down?
Brother, if not one single App on your phone is allowed location they will still find you through your phone. They don't ask about App Location Services and comb through umpteen million servers. The authorities go straight to the source. They check with your carrier and your carrier tells them each and every cell tower your phone has connected to. They don't need location services for that. It's automatic, your phone just has to be on and have service.
Don't want the authorities to track you by your cell phone? The only way to avoid that is to not have a cell phone. Period.
Is it Microsoft you are worried about? Is it 3rd party servers? Figure out who you trust and who you don't. Only give the trusted ones access to Location. A lot of your stuff will function at a lower level. The only drawback from allowing Apps to have Location is advertising. So what? Microsoft isn't Google. I've been all in with both and I know the difference. Microsoft isn't using their position to make money from steering advertisers to you in anywhere near the frantic level that Google does. The inter-app permissions on Windows Phone are much more restricted (and therefore protective of YOU) that they are on Android. Those third party ones? That's exactly why the free game wants Location so they can show you an ad that is relevant to where you live. They don't want to send you an ad for a store in Los Angeles if you live in Heidelberg.
In short, you rob yourself of a lot of the device's power and potential to avoid nothing of any consequence. Could you explain how any of this is wrong? Can you tell me what about Location harms you?
You state:
This use of location should be plain and simple noticed for each app.
As gpobernardo explained, each app must ask you. You can always say yes or no. You can always change the permissions. It is this way on every OS. This is not some Microsoft built trap designed to trick you into giving away something that will harm you.